Atlanpole

As the Innovation Hub for the Greater Nantes economic and University area, Atlanpole plays a key role within the main multidisciplinary area of innovation in Western France.

Atlanpole is the science based business incubator for the whole region Pays de la Loire. As a EU-BIC and the reference point of contact for two thematic French Tech networks, it fosters the emergence, creation and development of innovative companies, of start-up companies and of small and medium sized enterprises ( beyond 300 companies in the past 20 years, with a90% start-up 5 years survival rate).

A long time member of both EBN and IASP Innovation networks, Technopole of the Nantes University basin, Atlanpole is the “driving force” of the Greater Nantes Area of Innovation, comprising more than 460 companies, several Sciences Parks, incubators, accelerators, and connecting all Western France innovative clusters from various fields (Digital, Advanced Manufacturing, Biotech, Agrofood, Clean Tech, …) : Atlanpole is the operational relay in Pays de laLoire region of"Images & Réseaux" , the Western France digital cluster and theSea cluster "Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique" as well.Atlanpole has developed since its origin strongoperational partnership with "Pôle EMC2", the Advanced Manufacturing cluster, and is providing full support to the WesternFrance Bio-Cluster, Atlanpole Biotherapies.